You're manning your booth at CVI, while watching the Jedi Training Academy adjacent to it, and you start to wonder... Perhaps you could make that whole thing work... Perhaps there was a hidden Jedi Academy on some world in the Outer Rim, and the Empire had just located it... But, they sent two incompetent stormtroopers. However, Vader knew that those troopers were incompetent, so he goes along, as he wishes to destroy this last remaining bit of the Jedi Order himself. Though, due to their seclusion, those younglings proved to be more than a match for even the Empire...

... you're watching reruns of old cartoon shows and start plotting on how you can cross them with Star Wars.

Actually guilty of that today while watching Disney's Gargoyles. Darth Sidious vs Lord Oberon! King Arthur mistakens a Jedi for Merlin. Lexington toying with a lightsaber. Xanatos' Robot Clan vs Stormtroopers! Who shoots straighter? MacBeth says "When 900 years old you reach, look as good you definitely will not." to Yoda. Heh.

I have that problem, too, but it's not with every single thing that I like. Thankfully, the scope of my fics and plot bunnies stay relatively confined to SW, but I do tend to be subject to plotting one story, then dropping it for another, then dropping that for a different one, then dropping that one for the first one, only to drop that for something completely different...

When you're watching ANH with your brother, he mentions something (in this case it was 'what if Owen killed the stormtroopers and got away with Beru and the burned bodies that you see are actually the stormtrooper's bodies') and you hit him and yell: 'DON'T GIVE ME ANY MORE PLOT BUNNIES - THEY ARE ALREADY TAKING OVER MY BRAIN!'

Random lines of music, random songs, random dialogue from a completely different genre, etc. can get me thinking of new ideas. Sometimes these ideas are incorporated into what I’m already working on, but sometimes they make me want to write a new fic. I'm up to like a bagillion fic ideas right now, so that can be difficult.

I'm lucky if my dreams have plots. For the most part, they don't. If they do, it's so disjointed that I can't make it work. And even the interesting ones don't always have plots. A few nights ago, I dreamt of some weird Mass Effect-style show that was full of slapstick, and ended with a number of political characters sitting around a table and a CGI Spock-wannabe putting an ashtray on the table and directing another character to spit out his gum. :/

Anywho...

...When writing the Dear Diary entries, you wonder how you can incorporate aspects of your daily life into the story.